Burlington-based writer covering Vermont's cannabis industry since 2023. Visits every licensed dispensary in the state, tests products, and reads the CCB rulebook so you don't have to.
Quick Answer
Across the live online menus of 69 tracked Vermont dispensaries as of September 30, 2026, roughly 5,220 in-stock listings sort into five core categories: flower is the largest at 26.7%, but edibles nearly tie it at 26.5%, followed by vapes (19.5%), pre-rolls (13.7%) and concentrates (13.6%). Flower and edibles appear on 68 of 69 tracked menus; pre-rolls on just 49. A handful of shops specialize sharply — Garcia's Cannabis Collective is about 75% concentrates, Kingdom Boyz roughly 95% edibles. These are advertised menu-inventory figures, not point-of-sale data.
"Flower is king" is the reflex line about cannabis retail. In Vermont, the crown is a lot less secure than that. We capture the live online menus of 69 tracked dispensaries every night, and when you sort what's on those shelves into categories, flower barely edges out edibles for the top spot.
This is a look at composition — not price, but what formats actually fill Vermont's shelves, and which shops break the mold. Every figure below is live menu inventory as of September 30, 2026, and reflects advertised in-stock listings, not point-of-sale data.
The market mix: flower leads, but edibles are right behind
Of roughly 5,220 in-stock listings we classify into five core categories across all tracked menus, here's how the shelf breaks down:
- Flower — 1,392 listings (26.7%)
- Edibles — 1,383 listings (26.5%)
- Vapes — 1,019 listings (19.5%)
- Pre-rolls — 714 listings (13.7%)
- Concentrates — 712 listings (13.6%)
The headline is that gap between flower and edibles: just 0.2 of a percentage point, or nine listings, separates them. Whatever "flower is king" means nationally, on Vermont's advertised menus flower and edibles are effectively a two-way tie for the largest slice of the shelf. Vapes hold a clear third, and pre-rolls and concentrates round out the bottom, near-identical to each other.
Not every shop carries everything
Category share is one thing; availability is another. Flower and edibles are close to universal — each appears on 68 of the 69 tracked menus. Vapes are on 63. But the pattern breaks down at the specialty end:
- Concentrates: on just 58 of 69 tracked menus
- Pre-rolls: on only 49 of 69
In other words, if you're shopping for a specific format — a live-resin cart, a rosin, a pre-packed infused pre-roll — the shop you pick matters far more than it does for flower or gummies. Roughly three in ten tracked shops don't advertise pre-rolls at all.
The specialists: shops that break the mold
Averages hide the most interesting shelves. A handful of tracked stores look nothing like the market mix above — they concentrate their whole menu on one format.
The concentrate house
Garcia's Cannabis Collective is the clearest specialist we track: about 75% of its classified listings (27 of 36) are concentrates, versus a 13.6% market share. If dabs are the mission, that's a dramatically different shelf than the typical shop. Northeast Kannabis also skews heavy, with concentrates near a third of its menu.
The edible-forward shops
Kingdom Boyz Cannabis runs the most lopsided menu of all — roughly 95% edibles (18 of 19 listings), though on a small overall count. Among larger menus, GoodFire Cannabis is over half edibles (30 of 56), and Upstate Elevator carries the most edible listings by raw count — 40 — even though it stocks broadly across categories.
The flower purists
On the other side, some shops stay close to the plant. Milton Remedies is about 71% flower (24 of 34 listings), and Lucky 7 runs roughly 64%. For vapes, Hello, Hi leans harder than most, at about a quarter of its menu.
Why this matters
A price index tells you how much; a category breakdown tells you what. Two shops with identical average flower prices can offer completely different trips — one a flower-and-pre-roll house, the next a concentrate specialist. That texture is invisible from any single storefront, and it's exactly what a market-wide menu tracker can surface. For the live price side of the picture, our Vermont Flower Price Index ranks tracked shops by average flower price, refreshed daily, and the full category chart stays live on the data hub.
How we measure this
We capture each dispensary's public online menu nightly and tag every in-stock listing by category. "Category share" is a shop's — or the market's — count of in-stock listings in a category divided by its total classified listings; the roughly 5,220 figure counts listings that fall into the five core categories above, so it runs below our full in-stock SKU count. We track 69 shops — an estimated large majority of Vermont's licensed retail catchment — so formats strong mainly at stores we don't yet cover may be under-represented. These are advertised menu-inventory figures, not point-of-sale data: they describe what's on the shelf, not what sells at the register. Selection changes daily.
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